"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."

-- Kathy Acker

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“All my stories were usually titled, 'White House Says,' 'President Bush Wants,' and I relied on transcripts from the briefings. I relied on press releases that were sent to the press for the purpose of accurately portraying what the White House believed or wanted.”

Source : "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2005.
“The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.”
“American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.”
“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.”
“"What kind of world do we live in? Why are we applauding this guy's abs?" I mean, no offense to Michael Phelps. We like him. But he's not smart. He hasn't invented anything or saved people's lives. He's a guy with abs, and we celebrate these abs.”

Source : "The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". Interview with David L. Ulin, believermagblog.wordpress.com. January 15, 2014.
“She's a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.”
“Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.”
“Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity.”

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